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How Marian Locks changed Philadelphia
One woman who made a difference
The late gallery owner Marian Locks brought spirit and confidence to Philadelphia artists and consumers alike. In the process she created a community that hadn't previously existed.
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Katharine Gray's "516' by Philadelphia Theatre Workshop
Homage, or recycling?
Katharine Clark Gray's tedious and meandering 516 borrows heavily from Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things without much improvement.
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Orchestra 2001 plays Barber and Maggio
Childhood 1915, parenthood 2010
Laura Heimes and Orchestra 2001 gave Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 a reading that was more dramatic than the other performances I've heard. Then Robert Maggio's Summer: 2 A.M. provided an intriguing counterpart from a parent's perspective.
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Philadelphia Classical Symphony at Holy Trinity
The case for complexity
Mark O'Connor's Strings and Threads is an enjoyable collection of Irish folk pieces. But the complexity of Maurice Wright's Wissahickon Scenes makes it a far more powerful and musically interesting work.
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Stieg Larsson's Swedish feminist heroine (1st comment)
Sweden's darker side, and a feminist avenging angel
What Ingmar Bergman did for Swedish private life— that is, expose its dark side— Larsson did for Swedish public life. His novels expose corruption and sexism in high places and provide a uniquely believable but heroic female figure to combat them.
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LA Philharmonic visits Verizon Hall (2nd review)
Excitement, in more ways than one
With his East Coast premiere of John Adams's City Noir and his surprisingly intense interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony, the LA Philharmonic's young conductor Gustavo Dudamel demonstrated that he's more than just another pretty face.
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LA Philharmonic visits Verizon Hall (1st review)
California dreamin'
The LA Philharmonic's sexy young music director, Gustavo Dudamel, invariably prompted comparisons with Philadelphia's leaderless orchestra. But those comparisons weren't all favorable.
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Historical venues for Chamber Orchestra and Vox Ama Deus
Acres of Diamonds: The sequel
Temple's renovated Lew Klein Hall and Old City's Old St. Joseph's Church are great places to hear Vivaldi and Rossini, underscored by an added touch of Philadelphia history.
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The Met's "Armida' in HD transmission
The trouble with Rossini
In the Met's production of Rossini's Armida, wonderful scenes and the stunning performance of Renée Fleming alternate with long patches of lesser interest.
Armida. Opera by Gioacchino Rossini. Directed by Mary Zimmerman; Riccardo Frizza, conductor. Metropolitan Opera high-definition screen production May 19, 2010 in movie theaters throughout the U.S. (May 22 in Canada.) www.metoperafamily.org.
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi works in New York
An artist between worlds
Utagawa Kuniyoshi is less well known in the West than his fellow artists of Japan's “floating world,” Hokusai and Hiroshige, but the splendid exhibit currently on display at the Japan Society, culled from the Arthur R. Miller collection, should do much to remedy that. Few artists anywhere in the 19th Century had Kuniyoshi's range of imagination and invention, and he touches our own modernity in fascinating and even startling ways.
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